Three vendors are better than one, say users
The idea of a heterogeneous environment remains a very powerful force in IT.
The idea of a heterogeneous environment remains a very powerful force in IT.
Microsoft plans to deliver seven security updates next week to patch 28 bugs, but its plans to update Windows Update in response to the Flame malware could disrupt this month's patching.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, speaking at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday night with MIT Senior Research Scientist David Clark, said that participation in the information society must be regarded as a right, not a privilege.
The CEO of French vulnerability research firm Vupen Security today dismissed reports suggesting hackers had broken into the company's systems and stolen information on as many as 130 zero-day vulnerabilities.
As the use of cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream, serious operational "meltdowns" could arise as end-users and vendors mix, match and bundle services for various means, a researcher argues in a new paper set for discussion next week at the USENIX HotCloud '12 conference in Boston.
Enterprise data centers, from small to large, are moving or planning to move significant amounts of their applications and data to the cloud, but data migration is a big concern and implementation on existing infrastructures can be time-consuming, complex, and costly.
In a first for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency has filed charges against two businesses that allegedly allowed consumer personal data to be leaked through P-to-P (peer-to-peer) software installed on their networks.
New client-server software from NetMotion Wireless now gives IT groups a ton of information on how cellular data links are performing for mobile workers.
Mojix has released a new version of its wide-area RFID tag reading product, now capable of reading tags 600 or more feet away.
Citrix is moving into the mobile network optimization market with its announced purchase of Bytemobile.
Google will now include additional provisions in its Apps sales contracts with E.U. customers to offer more assurances about the data they store in Google data centers.
Virgin Mobile USA will offer Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S to prepaid customers starting June 29.
Data protection company, Sophos, has announced a partnership with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Cloud provider, VMVault, resembling a new kind of partnership for the vendor in the Australia and New Zealand region.
One thing apparent at Computex this week is that computer makers really aren't sure what consumers want in a PC, and they're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
Microsoft appears to agree with experts that the exploit of its Windows Update system by the Flame cyber espionage malware was a "significant" event in the history of Windows hacking.
The next generation of Wi-Fi -- the superfast IEEE 802.11ac standard -- will integrate a range of wireless technologies on the same chip, as Marvell showed this week at Taiwan's giant annual Computex show. The semiconductor vendor announced a chip that will include 11ac with Bluetooth and near-field communications (NFC).
Cisco this week unveiled a TelePresence endpoint for workers in nontraditional settings, like those caught in a storm, stuck in traffic or otherwise detached from the usual 9 to 5 business world.
Oracle rolled out a new Platinum Services offering that it claims will set a new high standard in the IT industry during a webcast event on Wednesday featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.
Microsoft today announced it will issue an update to its Windows Update to prevent copy-cat hackers from duplicating Flame's feat of infecting fully-patched PCs by faking the service.
A judge in Massachusetts ordered a teen driver to one year in a county correctional center for texting while driving that led to a fatal crash.